Increase your Gaming FPS

alexdagr8est · Aug 30, 2009

Hey guys I read about this program in Australian PC Authority magazine, completely free it was meant to increase performance in gaming (mainly for vista), checked it out and added an extra average 5 Frames Per Second for most of my games.

I suggested it to one of the guys on the forum he liked it, so Im putting it out there, try it if you want, if you dont, no big issue.
its:
Game Booster | Faster Play, Free Download | Free Game Accelerator Download

Frostmourne · Aug 31, 2009

alexdagr8est said:
Hey guys I read about this program in Australian PC Authority magazine, completely free it was meant to increase performance in gaming (mainly for vista), checked it out and added an extra average 5 Frames Per Second for most of my games.

I suggested it to one of the guys on the forum he liked it, so Im putting it out there, try it if you want, if you dont, no big issue.
its:
Game Booster | Faster Play, Free Download | Free Game Accelerator Download

So you would increase your FPS by running another program in the background? That would probably desabilize your whole system if it shuts down essential services.

alexdagr8est · Aug 31, 2009

it doesnt believe it or not, it disables nonessential services while playing such as the print spooler. and you choose what to disable ontop of nonessential windows programs, ie anti-virus etc, things that take up alot of memory and CPU load.
I have never crashed once whilst running this program, I have only ever seen the benefits.
If you play you should try it for yourself

Frostmourne · Aug 31, 2009

alexdagr8est said:
it doesnt believe it or not, it disables nonessential services while playing such as the print spooler. and you choose what to disable ontop of nonessential windows programs, ie anti-virus etc, things that take up alot of memory and CPU load.
I have never crashed once whilst running this program, I have only ever seen the benefits.
If you play you should try it for yourself

Fair enough but I'd rather buy a GTX 295 with a new system. Nothing can substitute for good hardware.:D

alexdagr8est · Aug 31, 2009

I would as well, my GTX280 just doesnt do it for me anymore (especially when i see those GTX295's benchmarks), I would relish the opportunity to run 3 GTX295's on my mobo. but for that I'd have to upgrade my power supply too though..
show me the money!

smarteyeball · Aug 31, 2009

alexdagr8est said:
I would relish the opportunity to run 3 GTX295's on my mobo.

Outside of benchmarks, x3 295's would be pointless in real world performance as you can't go any higher than quad SLI. Having the third 295 as a dedicated physx card would also be a bit of a waste.

But judging by that OC rig you posted, you like to bench

archie123 · Aug 31, 2009

looking at what services it disables i think ill give it a try cant do any harm , dont think it'll make any differance unless you have a low end machine

i have some custom cod 5 benchmarks i created , ill run it and try it out tomorrow on and off , ill report back

alexdagr8est · Sep 1, 2009

Im saving up slowly for one of the new gulfstream CPU's coming out Q1 next year, I will crank that CPU until it melts, unless liquid nitrogen has something to say about it. when I run out of that, I will most likely install some decent icepacks

stoneys-nutz · Sep 1, 2009

Frostmourne said:
alexdagr8est said:

it doesn't believe it or not, it disables nonessential services while playing such as the print spooler. and you choose what to disable on top of nonessential windows programs, IE anti-virus etc, things that take up alot of memory and CPU load.
I have never crashed once whilst running this program, I have only ever seen the benefits.
If you play you should try it for yourself

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Fair enough but I'd rather buy a GTX 295 with a new system. Nothing can substitute for good hardware.:D

Of course you are absolutely right to say there is no substitute for good hardware, the problem is, not everybody can afford "good hardware", so a little tool like this can do wonders to a low end machine, i used it years ago when i was on steam power and it did the job quite well, all it does is shut down services that you would shutdown yourself, it just does it with one hit of a button. If you are struggling with FPS's, then this little add-on is worth a look.

archie123 · Sep 1, 2009

ok im back , it stopped quite a few services had no effect on my memory usage increased the cpu load a little and made no differance to my ingame fps (i was testing ingame and with real world custom timedemos and with FRAPS using its benchmark fps facility

I can be quite positive and say that this software is a little pointless

if you have 1 gig of ram and a very low end rig maybe it'll make a differance otherwise waste of time

i really dont know how with that rig you have this program can have improved your ingame fps at all..........are you sure its not just the placebo effect??

I seem a little sharp sometimes....im not really

just pointing out this program is a bit poo ......... you did ask us to try it

I did use it to defrag my cod5 files but im assuming as each folder is quite small that'll make no differance either

stoneys-nutz said:
. If you are struggling with FPS's, then this little add-on is worth a look.

No its not

Frostmourne · Sep 1, 2009

As I said, nothing is better than real hardware.

alexdagr8est · Sep 2, 2009

so you're saying that a program that uses less than 1% Cpu usage and probably <1MB of ram
didnt speed up your computer when it shutdown nonessential tasks, you did choose to close a few processes too didnt you? explorer.exe being a big one - you dont need your taskbar for games- didnt help you squeeze an extra few FPS out of your game?

Just looked at your specs and I can probably see why, you are using integrated audio - puts another strain on the CPU, as your cpu has more to compute due to another process (integrated HD audio running), you are using 64-bit, as you would know when you are playing a game, the game itself is in "emulation mode" so you would be using maximum 3GB of your DDR2 ram whilst the remaining background processes would have been running on that extra 1GB of ram. This in itself defeats the purpose of the test, as it innaccurately purports the results. emulation changes the results, because the whole machine has to emulate a 32-bit environment to play the game your test results are faulty. more processes used to run the game in this environment anyway.

Frostmourne · Sep 2, 2009

alexdagr8est said:
so you're saying that a program that uses less than 1% Cpu usage and probably <1MB of ram
didnt speed up your computer when it shutdown nonessential tasks, you did choose to close a few processes too didnt you? explorer.exe being a big one - you dont need your taskbar for games- didnt help you squeeze an extra few FPS out of your game?

Just looked at your specs and I can probably see why, you are using integrated audio - puts another strain on the CPU, as your cpu has more to compute due to another process (integrated HD audio running), you are using 64-bit, as you would know when you are playing a game, the game itself is in "emulation mode" so you would be using maximum 3GB of your DDR2 ram whilst the remaining background processes would have been running on that extra 1GB of ram. This in itself defeats the purpose of the test, as it innaccurately purports the results. emulation changes the results, because the whole machine has to emulate a 32-bit environment to play the game your test results are faulty. more processes used to run the game in this environment anyway.

6GB of DDR3 RAM and a Core i7 in a desktop has no problem with integrated audio and any extra background processes are insignificant. These programs are pointless.

alexdagr8est · Sep 2, 2009

Frostmourne said:
alexdagr8est said:

so you're saying that a program that uses less than 1% Cpu usage and probably <1MB of ram
didnt speed up your computer when it shutdown nonessential tasks, you did choose to close a few processes too didnt you? explorer.exe being a big one - you dont need your taskbar for games- didnt help you squeeze an extra few FPS out of your game?

Just looked at your specs and I can probably see why, you are using integrated audio - puts another strain on the CPU, as your cpu has more to compute due to another process (integrated HD audio running), you are using 64-bit, as you would know when you are playing a game, the game itself is in "emulation mode" so you would be using maximum 3GB of your DDR2 ram whilst the remaining background processes would have been running on that extra 1GB of ram. This in itself defeats the purpose of the test, as it innaccurately purports the results. emulation changes the results, because the whole machine has to emulate a 32-bit environment to play the game your test results are faulty. more processes used to run the game in this environment anyway.

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6GB of DDR3 RAM and a Core i7 in a desktop has no problem with integrated audio and any extra background processes are insignificant. These programs are pointless.

What are you on about Archi3 has 4GB DDR2 and a Q6600.
so you are saying nothing speeds up if you have alot of processes running on your pc with 6GB of DDR3 and a Corei7, ok I will test your theory right now on one of my client's pc, I have their antivirus running, their antispyware running and a few other processes - the norm. now I will run some pc intensive apps, ie encoding and decoding ripped blu-ray movies, guess what, it does go a bit faster when they dont have the 2 processes running.

Frostmourne · Sep 2, 2009

alexdagr8est said:
Frostmourne said:

alexdagr8est said:

so you're saying that a program that uses less than 1% Cpu usage and probably <1MB of ram
didnt speed up your computer when it shutdown nonessential tasks, you did choose to close a few processes too didnt you? explorer.exe being a big one - you dont need your taskbar for games- didnt help you squeeze an extra few FPS out of your game?

Just looked at your specs and I can probably see why, you are using integrated audio - puts another strain on the CPU, as your cpu has more to compute due to another process (integrated HD audio running), you are using 64-bit, as you would know when you are playing a game, the game itself is in "emulation mode" so you would be using maximum 3GB of your DDR2 ram whilst the remaining background processes would have been running on that extra 1GB of ram. This in itself defeats the purpose of the test, as it innaccurately purports the results. emulation changes the results, because the whole machine has to emulate a 32-bit environment to play the game your test results are faulty. more processes used to run the game in this environment anyway.

Click to expand...

6GB of DDR3 RAM and a Core i7 in a desktop has no problem with integrated audio and any extra background processes are insignificant. These programs are pointless.

Click to expand...

What are you on about Archi3 has 4GB DDR2 and a Q6600.
so you are saying nothing speeds up if you have alot of processes running on your pc with 6GB of DDR3 and a Corei7, ok I will test your theory right now on one of my client's pc, I have their antivirus running, their antispyware running and a few other processes - the norm. now I will run some pc intensive apps, ie encoding and decoding ripped blu-ray movies, guess what, it does go a bit faster when they dont have the 2 processes running.

I wasn't referring to his pc. I was pointing out how useless this app is when you use real modern hardware.

alexdagr8est · Sep 2, 2009

even then, you must know that all applications play a role on modern hardware, you can only minimise the effects by upgrading but not remove them completely. And until Direct X11 starts getting developers delivering us games in 64-bit we will forever be stuck in emulation for games that do consume more.
Emulation works like this. for example. It either has one core doing the virtualisation and delivering the processes for the OS and the other 3 cores and working on the game (along with the graphics card) or on the other hand it has all these things spread out on an equal load for all these cores... either way its using up the same amount of resources as a 32-bit system, give or take at certain times. this program is also in 32-bit, some of these programs aren't optimised for 64-bit OS's you guys should know this.

Frostmourne · Sep 2, 2009

alexdagr8est said:
even then, you must know that all applications play a role on modern hardware, you can only minimise the effects by upgrading but not remove them completely. And until Direct X11 starts getting developers delivering us games in 64-bit we will forever be stuck in emulation for games that do consume more.
Emulation works like this. for example. It either has one core doing the virtualisation and delivering the processes for the OS and the other 3 cores and working on the game (along with the graphics card) or on the other hand it has all these things spread out on an equal load for all these cores... either way its using up the same amount of resources as a 32-bit system, give or take at certain times. this program is also in 32-bit, some of these programs aren't optimised for 64-bit OS's you guys should know this.

Yes I know and most likely a lot of others here at the forums, but I've never had slowdowns emulating 32-bit and I know 100% that I don't need to switch off a couple of processes taking a few MB of RAM.

archie123 · Sep 3, 2009

we are just testing your recommende software and yes i can say quite categorically that it made no diffearnce to my performance ingame , in either synthetic or real world benchmarks.

CPU load remained the same ingame (all tested using riva tuner) as did memory usage

and yes onboard audio uses cpu cycles to process sound but that app doesnt help that and we were testing that app not my sound chip , and this issue was much more prevalent years ago , with a quad core cpu you notice no diferance in fps ingame with onboard or pci

were rig builders , were gamers , we know how to benchmark

you sound mildly offended but theres no need to be you didnt write the software

i wish it did work , thats why i tested it it sounds briliant i just doest deliver

peace

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